Donald Hall Quotes

When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

Donald Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 20, 1928 - June 23, 2018

Topics

FarmGrandfatherThreeChickenEat

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Jeremy Northam

TruthHeartJobKindStorytelling

In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses.

John McAfee

AmericaCameraRightSingleTurn

There's a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.

Anna Kendrick

DifferenceBeingSingActressWho

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

Amar'e Stoudemire

ThinkMatureMoreLittleGuyThan

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

Amelie Nothomb

HatMeParisNowWantWithout

Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.

Stanley Druckenmiller

MoneyMaking MoneyYouKnowOwn

In places like Glasgow and Newcastle, audiences have a tradition of being amusingly combative. But they're not trying to ruin the act, they're trying to give you a challenge. It's like a cat playing with a mouse - the cat doesn't want the mouse to die, it wants to keep it alive for its own amusement and to be entertained by its struggle.

Stewart Lee

ChallengeStruggleDieTryingYou

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

Tom Hiddleston

GoodProudLonelyOvercomeHuman

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Robert Baden-Powell

SurpriseUnexpectedScoutNeverHe

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.

Ronaldinho

FamilyMusicHappyMusiciansHouse

After 30 years in Washington, it is clear that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with our state, its people, and our values.

Matt Bevin

PeopleValuesLostWashingtonTouch

My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years.

Mary Berry

FamilySonTreeDressMeWait

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